LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 23:6 June 2023
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The Impact of Multilingualism on Personality Development

Ajmal Hussain

Abstract

Due to rapid technology improvements, more individuals are travelling in this multicultural world, where they encounter other cultures and linguistic divergences. Up to the past ten years, English was a widely used language. From that moment forward, languages started to offer the hotel industry unparalleled value by improving managers' and front-line staff members' comprehension of other cultures. Because they describe people with varying degrees of intercultural competency, the terms monolingualism, bilingualism, and multilingualism have grown in prominence. attempt has been made to show how the multilingualism affect personality profile why being bilingual has advantages for persons working in the hospitality industry, sometimes known as the "people business.

Keywords: Multilingualism; Monolingualism; Personality development; Employment, Opportunities.

1. Introduction

India is known as a large sociolinguistic nation. Multilingualism is this giant's nervous system. With around 1600 mother tongues that can be reduced to about 200 languages for a population of 1.27 billion, India has a massive amount of multilingualism, with the populations of several linguistic minorities being larger than many European nations (Annamalai, 2001). Language is a human capacity that "coevolves with us," according to Li Wei (Wei, 2000), Most of the population in India is bilingual. Speaking a second language is widespread in this nation, Even so, it is possible that there may not be a significant personality change, which may be related to cultural factors. The majority of India's cultures, if not all of them, do, in fact, differ very slightly from one state to another and from one region to another. But, even then, frequently using a second, third, or in some unusual cases, four or more languages may alter how you view or understand various situations.

2. Literature Review

Research has shown that bilinguals and multilinguals have a small but significant effect on personality traits. Additionally, individuals who know more languages usually have easier communication in different languages. Additionally, higher knowledge of multiple languages is linked to higher levels of Openness, which is beneficial for multilinguals in the hospitality workforce. Additionally, people knowing more languages are prone to scoring higher in levels of cultural empathy, which can be used to improve the understanding of customer needs and wants in tourism.

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Ajmal Hussain
Department of Arabic, Faculty of Arts
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202002, India
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